The Kogi State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Independent Nation Electoral Commission (INEC) of colluding with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to frustrate the party from inspecting the materials used during the December 3 2012 gubernatorial election in the state.
This was disclosed yesterday in Lokoja in a press conference held by the state secretary of the party Barrister Isaac Ekpa.
The secretary alleges that all effort of the party counsels to enable INEC to comply with the tribunal directives that all inspections of the election materials should be completed before the 5th of March the date for the resume sitting of the tribunal has been manipulated to favour the PDP adding that the counsels to PDP in agreement with INEC kept on introducing flimsy excuses.
He stated that with the delay in starting the scanning and inspection after the arrivals of the experts caused by the Inec the party doubts if it will be able to achieve much before the date of resumption
Ekpa hinted that for an exercise that was supposed to cover eighteen local government which it used six days to complete two local governments amount to denial of the people from knowing what happened to their votes in the election.
According to him ” we have lost Faith in the staff of Inec in kogi. They and the PDP are one and the same we want Jega to wade in to salvage their image.” he said.
The secretary lamented that INÉC which supposed to be neutral in this case has tacitly joined the pdp to frustrate the counsels and the forensic experts from carrying out the assignment of scanning the material as directed by the governorship tribunal sitting in the state.
